Re: Service not starting during install - Mailing list pgsql-general

From imageguy
Subject Re: Service not starting during install
Date
Msg-id 18a55117-296d-4904-93a2-950896cc15b5@s9g2000prg.googlegroups.com
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In response to Service not starting during install  (Frank Featherlight <dirtydude@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
> Any ideas now?

Are you *sure* you have checked the permissions of the os user_id that
is assigned to run the postgreSQL service ?
PG is very specific about the permissions it wants and just as
importantly it is very specific about the permissions it DOES NOT
want.

I would suggest you start with this entry which describes installing
on Windows.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Running_%26_Installing_PostgreSQL_On_Native_Windows

I have installed PG on a number of Win OS machines and in almost every
time when I have run into issues you described above it has come back
to a permissions.   As an example, last time  a customer's network
tech changed the  user_id of the database service to a 'domain admin'
and on the next reboot of the box, the pg service just wouldn't
start.  When we changed it back to a domain user everything worked as
it should ... after spending 3 hrs trying to sort out what the problem
was.




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